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Creating Better Forestry Certification Programs through Competition
It is basic Economics 101. Competitive markets create better outcomes than monopolists. Monopolists restrict supply and charge higher prices. Dynamically, monopolists face fewer incentives to create new products or improve how their products are made. In fact, creating new technologies or processes could undermine a monopolist’s current...
Investing Big to go Small
Manning Diversified is upgrading to a new small-log line to boost recovery and throughput as it chases a shifting fibre mix. As the beetle heads east and the markets head up, Manning Diversified’s Real Arsenault sees opportunity. That’s why after surviving more than seven years of nasty markets, the veteran sawmiller is upgrading his...
Rough & Ready - The Hearts of Lions
Andy Kerr is an unending source of amazement for me. We've never been formally introduced, but I have long admired his mastery of six-second sound bites - pithy little phrases that you can never forget, no matter how hard you try. The smoke had not yet cleared from the month-long 1987 Silver Fire when Andy announced from on high that "Not...

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Guest Columns

Healthy Forests, Healthy Economy Can Coexist
Simon Hare, Josephine County Commissioner, The Daily Courier
With the devastating news that Cave Junction's Rough & Ready Lumber Co. is closing after more than 90 years in...
Understanding forest carbon – our complex but reliable emissions backup
Dave Cleaves, Forest Service Climate Change Advisor, USDA
No truer words have been spoken than when ecologist Frank Egler said, “Ecosystems are not only more complex...
Quit Your Squawking!
Ben Parsons, training co-ordinator, FISTA
While attending WVU for my Forest Resource Management degree, certain classes had a volunteer requirement. For multiple...
Southern Pine Lumber Prices - A Perfect Storm?
Bob Bratton
Sometimes, there are as many ways to explain numbers as there are people to explain them. When it comes to the lumber...
Build Co-Sponsorship for Truck Weight Reform
Neil Ward
Support in Congress for the reintroduced Safe & Efficient Transportation Act (HR 612) had doubled to 12 co-sponsors...

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Industry News

U.S. Forest Service and partners fund edible forest project in Richmond, Calif.
Urban youth in Richmond, Calif. will get more opportunities to spend time outdoors and learn about plants and trees, thanks to a $30,000 Forest Service grant and a $93,000 matching partner...
New wildfire prevention outreach materials available
As many Western states approach the beginning of wildfire season and the South continues their battle with wildland fires, many states are sponsoring wildland fire prevention events and weeks. NASF...
Forest Planning Rule: public comment period reopened for proposed directives
On February 27, 2013 the Forest Service initiated a 60-day comment period to provide the public an opportunity to review the Agency's proposed planning directives. The public comment period...
BC’s BID Group Acquires Controlling Interest of QC’s COMACT
Combined assets to create one of North America’s largest mill equipment supply firms. The BID Group of Companies, based in BC announced it has acquired controlling interest of Quebec-based...
US housing starts continue to climb
Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 1.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 417,000 units in March, according to newly released figures from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau....
Value of Logger Training Survey
This announcement was originally created by Auburn University and is being distributed by the Great Lakes Timber Professional Association (GLTPA) on behalf of Executive Director Henry Schienebeck...

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Forest Photos

Sponsored by Evergreen Foundation

On the night of August 20, 1910, a wildfire of unimaginable fury cross the fog shrouded summit in the distance, headed east into Montana. Driven by hurricane-force winds, the Great 1910 Fire - the largest in U.S. history - incinerated more than two million acres of timberland in northern Idaho and western Montana in two terrifying days and nights. Ninety-eight years later, this forest stands as testament to nature's resiliency and a replanting effort that took years to complete.